[Congressional Bills 119th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H. Res. 676 Introduced in House (IH)]
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119th CONGRESS
1st Session
H. RES. 676
Censuring Representative Cory Mills.
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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
September 3, 2025
Ms. Clarke of New York submitted the following resolution; which was
referred to the Committee on Ethics
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RESOLUTION
Censuring Representative Cory Mills.
Whereas Representative Cory Mills has on several occasions conducted himself in
a manner that reflects discredit upon the House of Representatives;
Whereas, on February 19, 2025, Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department
officers were called to resolve a private matter at Representative Cory
Mills' residence, where officers were called to the 1300 block of
Maryland Avenue, Southwest around 1:15 p.m. for the report of an
assault;
Whereas police reports obtained by NBC4 Washington confirmed that the
Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department was investigating
Representative Cory Mills for an alleged assault of a 27-year old woman
that took place on February 19, 2025, at the residence of Representative
Cory Mills;
Whereas the first police report, provided to NBC4 Washington by a source and
confirmed by a second source familiar with the investigation, said that
the 27-year-old woman accused her significant other for over a year of
having grabbed her, shoved her, and pushed her out of the door, and also
said that the woman involved showed the officer ``bruises on her arm
which appeared fresh'';
Whereas NBC4 Washington also reported that the Metropolitan Police Department
identified Representative Cory Mills as the significant other of the
alleged victim of assault--which alleged victim was a 27-year-old woman
who was not the wife of Representative Cory Mills--and that the alleged
victim ``let officers hear Subject 1 [now identified by MPD as Mills]
instruct her to lie about the origin of her bruises . . . Eventually,
Subject 1 made contact with police and admitted that the situation
escalated from verbal to physical, but it was severe enough to create
bruising'';
Whereas, on February 21, 2025, the Washington post also confirmed two DC police
officials said that the alleged victim of assault initially told a 911
operator and police that she had been assaulted and that officers said
she also had what seemed to be visible injuries, and that while a
supervisor initially classified the offense internally as a family
disturbance, police commanders later learned of the incident, reviewed
the reports and body camera footage from the responding officers, and
reclassified the case as a domestic violence assault;
Whereas, on February 21, 2025, NBC4 Washington also reported that the
Metropolitan Police Department determined that probable cause to arrest
Representative Cory Mills for misdemeanor assault existed and sent an
arrest warrant for Representative Cory Mills to the United States
Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia; however, then-Acting
United States Attorney for the District of Columbia Ed Martin refused to
sign the arrest warrant for Representative Cory Mills and instead
returned the case to the Metropolitan Police Department for further
investigation;
Whereas, on July 14, 2025, a different former romantic partner of Representative
Cory Mills, who was apparently in a relationship with Representative
Mills from November 2021 to February 2025, reported to authorities in
Florida that Representative Mills threatened to release nude images and
other intimate videos of her and threatened to harm her future romantic
partners in retaliation for her decision to end a relationship with
Representative Mills after seeing the public reports described above
concerning the alleged February 2025 physical assault;
Whereas, in August 2024, the Office of Congressional Conduct adopted and
transmitted to the Committee on Ethics of the House of Representatives a
report indicating that there was substantial reason to believe that
Representative Cory Mills may have omitted or misrepresented required
information in his financial disclosure statements, accepted excessive
contributions to his campaign committee in the form of personal loans
and contributions that may not have derived from Representative Cory
Mills' personal funds, entered into, held, or enjoyed contracts with
federal agencies while he was a Member of Congress, and may have
accepted through his campaign committee in-kind contributions or other
contributions not lawfully made;
Whereas individuals who served with Representative Cory Mills have called into
question the veracity of the account of events which formed the basis of
a recommendation that Representative Cory Mills receive an award of a
Bronze Star, bestowed in 2021, for his service under enemy fire in Iraq
in 2003;
Whereas, in August 2024, Representative Cory Mills provided the Daytona Beach
News with documents purporting to prove that he earned a Bronze Star
with heroism, including a Department of the Army Form 638 recommending
Representative Cory Mills for a Bronze Star which includes a signature
from then-Army Brigade Commander Arnold N. Gordon-Bray; however, Retired
Brigadier General Bray told the Daytona Beach News-Journal in August
2024 that he did not sign a Bronze Star recommendation for
Representative Cory Mills;
Whereas five people who served with Representative Cory Mills, including two men
who were reported as having been personally saved by Representative Cory
Mills at great risk to his own life as a basis for the recommendation
for his Bronze Star in the Department of the Army Form 638, disputed
that Representative Cory Mills was involved in their rescue or provided
life-saving care;
Whereas one Private First Class cited as having been involved in one of the
listed achievements on Representative Cory Mills's Army Form 638
recommending him for a Bronze Star denied that Representative Cory Mills
provided him any aid and also denied that his injuries were life
threatening;
Whereas one Sergeant cited as having been involved in one of the listed
achievements on Representative Cory Mills's Army Form 638 recommending
him for a Bronze Star called the account a ``fabrication'' and claimed
that he ``was not involved in any claims that Cory Mills makes about
me''; and
Whereas, despite the numerous available contradictions of the accounts forming
the basis of the recommendation for his Bronze Star, Representative Cory
Mills described the legitimate factual disputes raised by individuals he
purportedly served with and rescued as ``slander and defamation'' in a
statement to the Daytona Beach News Journal: Now, therefore, be it
Resolved, That--
(1) Representative Cory Mills be censured;
(2) Representative Cory Mills forthwith present himself in
the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement
of censure; and
(3) Representative Cory Mills be censured with the public
reading of this resolution by the Speaker.
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